Comment on Suicide Squad Cost Warner Bros. $200 Million In Revenue

• BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. One in ten isn’t bad odds.

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  • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Alana Pierce has a great take on this which is that all games are a risk, but live service has a chance at infinite upside.

    Suits dont give a shit about anything but risk/reward, so live service always seems right to them, even if 99% of them bomb.

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    • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is a very good point. It also shows the delusion of the executives, thinking that their next shitty looter shooter will become the new Fortnite, not understanding the oversaturation of the market. People have limited hours to play per day, the only way they can play your game is if they stop playing something else.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s the thought process, and it’s also what’s going to bring a lot of these companies down. Their shitty game isn’t going to beat the odds when all the other shitty games are also being pushed. Their chance of success and potential return figures are likely off by a large margin.

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      • skulblaka@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I think it was profitable, at one point, up until the bait and switch that was Overwatch 2.

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  • lorty@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If it costs 200 million to take a shot, maybe it isn’t great odds.

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    • BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If you’ve got a market cap of three trillion and the investors expect three trillion plus one next quarter, can you afford to risk it?

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